I grew up in Toronto and used to hear Ed play almost weekly at George's Spaghetti House - he was Canada's best kept "jazz secret". That old Tele with the added neck humbucker was the only guitar I saw him use - it was his signature piece. Back in the day, he was a chain smoker and always had a cigarette in his mouth when he played - I'm guessing he's chewing nicotine gum. Strangely, Ed simply stopped playing and retired not too many years after this video was shot - he decided he'd had enough and wanted to spend his senior years with his family in suburban Toronto. We lost him last Feb. - and the entire Canadian jazz world (and more) mourned. RIP Ed Bickert - you quietly inspired thousands of guitarists and jazz lovers (including me).
I spent some of the best years of my life in Toronto, 411 Duplex Ave, in the 70’s. But for some strange reason never heard of Ed until much later, even though I was a jazz guitar fan. Bought my Gibson 355 on Yonge Street and took lessons from the staff guitarist for The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who lived on Wilson Avenue, though I can no longer recall his name. Ed is a marvelous player, equally capable in a trio or a Big Band setting, I wish I had met him back then.
New to Ed Bickert and am entranced. Granted, I come to jazz as a blues guitarist that also loves country, but this sounds like a perfect blend of Barney Kessel and Jimmy Raney with a splash of Buddy Emmons. For someone like Bickert to synthesize these lines of guitar to create a unique style is a mark of genius. And this performance is what mastery both look and sound like…and I’m including the amazing rhythm section in the mastery.
Today I learned about Ed Bickert and his telecaster ..fluently, effortlesly, authentic sound ... what a naturally gifted musician. So it is never too late to get to know a master jazz guitarist!!
My favourite Canadian guitar jazz trio, and I suspect it will always be that. Ed is the coolest cat, chewing his gum filling tge air with notes you don’t ever expect. Thanks Ed, RIP.👍🏻😎🎶
Hands down the best jazz guitar tone I've ever heard! FANTASTIC playing. The sound is so smooth and warm but punchy and clear. None of the wooliness that most bigger jazz guitars usually have.
What a wonderful video and one of the very few of Ed Bickert. It's a shame that significant portions of the video were spent on extreme closeups of his and the bass players face.
Believe it or not I delivered paper to Ed's older brother in Vernon British Columbia in the mid seventies. I don't think I can nail down the year, but Ed came out to to visit for a few weeks and the summer.....every day I would hear him out on the sundeck playing !!!! and being a stupid kid hung up totally on learning to play the guitar so I could play the Beatles, I didn't realize the opportunity to watch and listen one of the greats. Even a year later I realized what I missed.......
you might think about what Jim Hall said - whenever he was playing anywhere he was fine but the only guy that scared him when he walked into the room was Ed Bickert...food for thought...
I find Jim Hall and Ed Bickert's to be quite different. The tone, the time feel, the attack, the chord voicing are all different. I'd never mistake the two
Ed did so many things well, but this video really illustrates how natural his swing was. He was so effective when he had a good mid-tempo groove to float over. Like Lester Young, every note seemed to be part of a long dance he was doing with the beat. He also seems so "at one" with the groove and changes, his motions all so economical. Nothing wrong with face grimaces and tension (Ed scrunches up his face every once in a while), but Ed just looks like the jazz guitar Buddha up there, not trying, only doing.
Bickert's playing is so tasteful; I've listened to all his stuff but I've never heard him overplay a tune or get too "note-y." He was a master of understatement. His melodic lines were so fluid. I find it really interesting that his right hand technique is very similar to Jim Hall's in the way he positions his hand and holds the pick. I also love that he played a Fender Telecaster (my fave electric guitar) instead of a big hollow jazz box. He proves that you can play any kind of music on a Telecaster. I read somewhere that he switched to the Telecaster because they are famously sturdy and tough; they'll stand up to the abuse of the road a lot better than a hollowbody. He was totally not a gearhead and except for the neck humbucker, which a luthier added at his request, the guitar looks stock. It's kind of endearing how he has the hex wrench for the intonation adjustment scotch taped to the pickguard and had a spare pick taped to the back of the guitar under the neckplate with masking tape...
@@danielstoddart His wife apparently bought him a nice padded gig bag for the Telecaster at some point, and he returned it to the guitar shop because he couldn't fold it up and tuck it into the back of his amp like he did with the crummy vinyl bag she was trying to upgrade. The man was a complete pragmatist! Ironically, 99% of his gigs were in the greater Toronto areas, and he only occasionally did tours involving airplanes and so forth, so he could have continued playing the ES-175 he used in the 1960s without too much hassle, but he did prize a guitar he could leave in the car trunk when it was cold, and haul around in a lightweight bag. I think at some level he must have also just fallen in love with the ease of play and sustain of the Telecaster, both of which he used to maximum advantage. He did gripe to an interviewer once that it didn't sound as lush as a traditional jazz box, but he used it on every single studio recording he released under his own name, so I assume he wasn't too serious about his complaint. You can read a couple of interviews with him talking about music and guitars in this .pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1d1DnS18xqJet9rksNvRodIYrKLA43dL4/view
Ed has the kind of effortless coolness that reminds me of Lester Young. They just stand (or sit) there and spin out the most hummable, catchy, creative licks, and never sound indulgent.
I will never stop being amazed every time I hear Ed play. Was lucky enough to see him back in the day! The sound, the chords the swing. He is an original and the best of the best!!!!
What people are forgetting is that solid bodies were made/invented to stop the feed back of arch tops. When solid bodies were made there wasn't Rock & Roll. In the late '40's & early '50's Jazz & Pop were still predominate. So what I'm saying is solid bodies are Jazz guitars.
I first knew of Ed when I bought a tape of Mel Torme'&Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass back in 1987.It featured Mel Torme'.You can hear Ed in the mix which used to be rare for guitarists in big bands....
Great sound, clean phrasing and good taste. This video shows how a Fender Telecaster can be used to play good music. I really enjoyed this video and of course Ed Bickert Trio.
Ed is just simply outstanding. His lines are so totally expressive and melodic. There are few who come close, but none who equal him. You're the greatest Ed! What kind of gum do you chew and where can I get some?
His repair guy may have. Ed himself supposedly had almost no interest in equipment. He did obviously decide to switch out the neck pickup on the Telecaster, and said in an interview he was no fan of Fender amps, but beyond that, his colleagues mostly tell stories like the one where he left an allen wrench taped to his pickguard for years because the repair shop stuck it there just for safekeeping and he thought it was part of the repair. He does constantly make small adjustments to his volume and tone knobs as he plays. I think for his style and attack, most of what he did didn't depend heavily on specific pickups, pots, or amp models. His tone differs a little over the years and in different studio environments, but only "at the margins". The main sound is always that same mellow mid-rangy thing.
I'm quite familiar with Ed Bickert and am a big fan of his. My point was that his Tele does not produce a sound like a normal Tele, since it has humbucker pick-ups. I love the sound, but in a blindfold test, no one would guess that this was a Fender guitar. His sound is more like Jim Hall's Gibson or d'Aquisto, don't you think?
It is not unusual to see a Tele in this configuration and there are Tele models that come stock with both pickups as humbuckers. I have seen a number of jazz players with Teles with standard single coil pickups. The Tele is very versatile. If set up correct it works well for jazz.
Brilliant guitarist. If I can ever afford another guitar, I may get a Tele (because they're really cool and sound nice. Unfortunately, I don't think it will make me play any better, lol. Nor would chewing gum.)
Ah, a Tele with a humbucker in the neck position, the perfect jazz machine although I've heard a normal single coil Tele and struts doing the same thing.
Wow this is great stuff. Great playing and great tone - how does he get tone that out of a Tele? It looks like he's got a humbucker in the neck pickup - maybe that has something to do with it. Ed is so awesome.
neighbour? you, sir, are one of the luckiest people alive. ed bickert is the king of all cool jaz guitar anywhere. after bickert who is there ? i watched ed bickert on tv at 11-12 years old and wanted to play jazz guitar not the rock or pop guitar of the era. icon jazz guitarist who is unimagiably under rated.
.I love his playing and have for a long time.But,I think the original PU, the stock neck one,makes a sound I like more.The Tele PU has a pinch of bite to it that I think is lost in the Humb.What the hell.Just interesting to compare the two sounds, and thanks for the post...Wonderful
Hi, I think the bass player is playing a I-!V-bVII7-VI7 and Mr. Bickert is playing Cmaj7 with B on top and dropping the E to Eb making the voicing a F7#11 then moving to Bb9sus and Asus. He resolves into Amin9/D which is basically Dsus. Hope that helps. Very tasty!!
I'm wondering if the person who saw Joe Pass with Telecaster in his early year may be mistaking it for a Fender Jaguar he used to use also there was an similar Fender I think called the Jazzmaster guitar.
could watch this over and over ,ed's just amazing . The phrase at 1.46 is one of my all time favourites and his face says it all . Thanks so much for the post, is the rest of the gig available anywhere . Been trying to get more of ed's recording but they are few an far between (at least on cd).
@jjemsnd7, I believe he also was a little surprised when he was called to do a recording or a live date and when he said " call Barry Galbraith " they replied with " we already did"...
@jjemsnd7 lol... it really is jjem! Both are such giants. I can't think of a more lyrical player than Ed. His solos have a way of sticking in your head as entire melodies. Jim H. can do that for me too, but Ed has the edge on him for my ears. I'd love to see him resurface, if only for a one-off gig.
Ed, like his good freind Jim Hall, did some wonderful recordings with the great Paul Desmond. Both Jim and Ed are masters of the cool guitar sound that goes back to Charlie Christian. This video is definative Ed. So wasy, so fluid, so masterful, and so beautiful. I just wish he had the fame he deserves.
I grew up in Toronto and used to hear Ed play almost weekly at George's Spaghetti House - he was Canada's best kept "jazz secret". That old Tele with the added neck humbucker was the only guitar I saw him use - it was his signature piece. Back in the day, he was a chain smoker and always had a cigarette in his mouth when he played - I'm guessing he's chewing nicotine gum. Strangely, Ed simply stopped playing and retired not too many years after this video was shot - he decided he'd had enough and wanted to spend his senior years with his family in suburban Toronto. We lost him last Feb. - and the entire Canadian jazz world (and more) mourned. RIP Ed Bickert - you quietly inspired thousands of guitarists and jazz lovers (including me).
I spent some of the best years of my life in Toronto, 411 Duplex Ave, in the 70’s. But for some strange reason never heard of Ed until much later, even though I was a jazz guitar fan. Bought my Gibson 355 on Yonge Street and took lessons from the staff guitarist for The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who lived on Wilson Avenue, though I can no longer recall his name. Ed is a marvelous player, equally capable in a trio or a Big Band setting, I wish I had met him back then.
My understanding is the death of his wife and arthritis caused him to stop playing
Thanks for sharing, Ed Bickert will be missed.
@@glevumguy7850 are you thinking of Tony Braden by any chance?
That’s really a really beautiful story.
New to Ed Bickert and am entranced. Granted, I come to jazz as a blues guitarist that also loves country, but this sounds like a perfect blend of Barney Kessel and Jimmy Raney with a splash of Buddy Emmons. For someone like Bickert to synthesize these lines of guitar to create a unique style is a mark of genius. And this performance is what mastery both look and sound like…and I’m including the amazing rhythm section in the mastery.
The way Ed voices his chords are completely beautiful and entirely original. I've never heard any other jazz guitar played like Ed does!!!!
The humble Ed Bickert. Irreplacable.
Today I learned about Ed Bickert and his telecaster ..fluently, effortlesly, authentic sound ... what a naturally gifted musician. So it is never too late to get to know a master jazz guitarist!!
My favourite Canadian guitar jazz trio, and I suspect it will always be that. Ed is the coolest cat, chewing his gum filling tge air with notes you don’t ever expect. Thanks Ed, RIP.👍🏻😎🎶
Beautiful --- evr since I heard him 40 years ago --- the most underated jazz guitarist !
Most under appreciated guitarist of all time.
To be honest, Ed is my favorite guitarist
He plays like in a dream
Heard him 50 years ago when I first came to Canada ---- am still in awe of this super talent --- beautiful MELODIC jazz .
He's one of the last of a rare breed. What a fantastic looking Telecaster, a few lovely scars there. All the best from Scotland
Perfect balance of all elements of Jazz playing! Great Job Ed!
A fine smooth style that suggests Ed is an excellent Jazz player and just an excellent musician period . Thanks Ed !
Hands down the best jazz guitar tone I've ever heard! FANTASTIC playing. The sound is so smooth and warm but punchy and clear. None of the wooliness that most bigger jazz guitars usually have.
Agreed. Huge tone and sophisticated harmony/time.
What a wonderful video and one of the very few of Ed Bickert. It's a shame that significant portions of the video were spent on extreme closeups of his and the bass players face.
Believe it or not I delivered paper to Ed's older brother in Vernon British Columbia in the mid seventies. I don't think I can nail down the year, but Ed came out to to visit for a few weeks and the summer.....every day I would hear him out on the sundeck playing !!!! and being a stupid kid hung up totally on learning to play the guitar so I could play the Beatles, I didn't realize the opportunity to watch and listen one of the greats. Even a year later I realized what I missed.......
Thank you Ed Bickert! That was beautiful.
That was just great! Bassist Dave Young, who also payed with The Late Lenny Breau, just plays his ass off here.
you might think about what Jim Hall said - whenever he was playing anywhere he was fine but the only guy that scared him when he walked into the room was Ed Bickert...food for thought...
everyone is different, but bickert are and hall are similar enough that its tempting to compare them... i believe it
I find Jim Hall and Ed Bickert's to be quite different. The tone, the time feel, the attack, the chord voicing are all different. I'd never mistake the two
Wish we had more of mr Bicket to listen to ,he was marvelous
@@icecreamforcrowhurst i agree. They are entirely different.
Hall recommended Bickert to Desmond.
Elegance, style, and killer double stops. When you're that musical and expressive, a lot of flash really isn't necessary.
Thank you! Anything by Ed is pure gold!
Ed did so many things well, but this video really illustrates how natural his swing was. He was so effective when he had a good mid-tempo groove to float over. Like Lester Young, every note seemed to be part of a long dance he was doing with the beat. He also seems so "at one" with the groove and changes, his motions all so economical. Nothing wrong with face grimaces and tension (Ed scrunches up his face every once in a while), but Ed just looks like the jazz guitar Buddha up there, not trying, only doing.
Bickert's playing is so tasteful; I've listened to all his stuff but I've never heard him overplay a tune or get too "note-y." He was a master of understatement. His melodic lines were so fluid. I find it really interesting that his right hand technique is very similar to Jim Hall's in the way he positions his hand and holds the pick. I also love that he played a Fender Telecaster (my fave electric guitar) instead of a big hollow jazz box. He proves that you can play any kind of music on a Telecaster. I read somewhere that he switched to the Telecaster because they are famously sturdy and tough; they'll stand up to the abuse of the road a lot better than a hollowbody. He was totally not a gearhead and except for the neck humbucker, which a luthier added at his request, the guitar looks stock. It's kind of endearing how he has the hex wrench for the intonation adjustment scotch taped to the pickguard and had a spare pick taped to the back of the guitar under the neckplate with masking tape...
@@danielstoddart
His wife apparently bought him a nice padded gig bag for the Telecaster at some point, and he returned it to the guitar shop because he couldn't fold it up and tuck it into the back of his amp like he did with the crummy vinyl bag she was trying to upgrade. The man was a complete pragmatist! Ironically, 99% of his gigs were in the greater Toronto areas, and he only occasionally did tours involving airplanes and so forth, so he could have continued playing the ES-175 he used in the 1960s without too much hassle, but he did prize a guitar he could leave in the car trunk when it was cold, and haul around in a lightweight bag. I think at some level he must have also just fallen in love with the ease of play and sustain of the Telecaster, both of which he used to maximum advantage. He did gripe to an interviewer once that it didn't sound as lush as a traditional jazz box, but he used it on every single studio recording he released under his own name, so I assume he wasn't too serious about his complaint. You can read a couple of interviews with him talking about music and guitars in this .pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1d1DnS18xqJet9rksNvRodIYrKLA43dL4/view
this guy is amazing!! I wish I'd heard of him earlier..
Ed is all understated musicianship and quiet class. Beautiful playing.
Ed's solo here is simply masterful.
Ed has the kind of effortless coolness that reminds me of Lester Young. They just stand (or sit) there and spin out the most hummable, catchy, creative licks, and never sound indulgent.
Ed isn't playing a hollow body, but his tone is SO jazz guitar. I love it...
How can a telecaster sound so…jazz? Ed Bickert✔️unbelievable.
I will never stop being amazed every time I hear Ed play. Was lucky enough to see him back in the day! The sound, the chords the swing. He is an original and the best of the best!!!!
What people are forgetting is that solid bodies were made/invented to stop the feed back of arch tops. When solid bodies were made there wasn't Rock & Roll. In the late '40's & early '50's Jazz & Pop were still predominate. So what I'm saying is solid bodies are Jazz guitars.
Beautiful playing and tone ,,the tele the most versatile guitar made ever
absolutely amazing
I first knew of Ed when I bought a tape of Mel Torme'&Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass back in 1987.It featured Mel Torme'.You can hear Ed in the mix which used to be rare for guitarists in big bands....
I got a few incl a tele and a 175 and I love them all; the dry bite of the tele, the wet response of the 175, it's all good, really good
Great sound, clean phrasing and good taste. This video shows how a Fender Telecaster can be used to play good music. I really enjoyed this video and of course Ed Bickert Trio.
I thank you emmadetten,for this great upload! Ed is my favorite Canadian guitarist.
Impeccable!
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This is the reason for the Internet.
Dave Young and Terry Clark (dr) with Ed - all killin'' it.
very nice... the bass solo was amazing
The greatest chord melody player of the 20th century.
Ed's great but don't forget Barney Kessel.
This is what defines chill cool music 🎼
Saw him an his trio in Salt Lake City. What an inspiration.
Great player, side note I am always amazed the versatility of the tele
MY FAVORITE LIVING GUITARIST......I WISH HIM ALL THE BEST.
My grandmother is his sister I have his harmony amp from 1962 given to me by my dad I like to play through it.
Il suono di chitarra jazz più bello al mondo !
Ed is just simply outstanding. His lines are so totally expressive and melodic. There are few who come close, but none who equal him. You're the greatest Ed! What kind of gum do you chew and where can I get some?
It's the first time I saw a video of Ed Bickert. Cool guy, great playing and tone. They are all great. Nice trio
I new ED. quite well , in fact he gave me many gigs at the CFTO. Television station in Toronto
What a treat! Absolutely amazing. Kudos to Don Thompson as well.
Always kudos to Don, but he has nothing to do with this event. Dave Young is the bassist, Terry Clarke is on drums.
Such controlled and relaxed posture
I love the fact that he plays a Tele , and is just Great !
Pure & simple (and Beautiful) Genius
Love that Telecaster.....
just can't get enough of Ed Bickert! Guess chewing away won't help you to sound like him ;-)
fantastic Player!!!!!!!!!!!! No words.....
Great Player with beautiful Tele..
It's definately the gum! Seriously.........excellent!
Now that I know a little bit about pots, and what a typical tele's pots are, I wonder if Ed changed them to get his tone.
His repair guy may have. Ed himself supposedly had almost no interest in equipment. He did obviously decide to switch out the neck pickup on the Telecaster, and said in an interview he was no fan of Fender amps, but beyond that, his colleagues mostly tell stories like the one where he left an allen wrench taped to his pickguard for years because the repair shop stuck it there just for safekeeping and he thought it was part of the repair. He does constantly make small adjustments to his volume and tone knobs as he plays. I think for his style and attack, most of what he did didn't depend heavily on specific pickups, pots, or amp models. His tone differs a little over the years and in different studio environments, but only "at the margins". The main sound is always that same mellow mid-rangy thing.
sorry for the misspell ..icon jazz guitarist who is imagineably the most under rated in the business.
I could listen to Ed 24x7!
Clapton is God? Forget it! And what a beauty that Telecaster is! This is absolutely awesome, thanks a zillion times for this video!
This guy has innate groove in everything he plays. I live in Toronto and saw him only once! What a fool I am!
So sweet music 🎶🎶🎶
Thanks for posting! So awesome!
I'm quite familiar with Ed Bickert and am a big fan of his. My point was that his Tele does not produce a sound like a normal Tele, since it has humbucker pick-ups. I love the sound, but in a blindfold test, no one would guess that this was a Fender guitar. His sound is more like Jim Hall's Gibson or d'Aquisto, don't you think?
Has nothing to do with the hum bucker in the least. Sound if virtually indistinguishable from his playing with the stock PU.
I have never heard him play with a regular Tele.
Probably 75% of his recordings are with a stock ? 63 telecaster including a few videos on RUclips
It is not unusual to see a Tele in this configuration and there are Tele models that come stock with both pickups as humbuckers. I have seen a number of jazz players with Teles with standard single coil pickups. The Tele is very versatile. If set up correct it works well for jazz.
His lines are so juicy, starting with the way he states the head. I'm goin' to school.
Nice adjective, "juicy". That, and "tasty" were my father's descriptive words of approval.
@@eastonpeter1242 there are enough 'lesson' here to keep me busy through the winter.
Mam, the tone he is getting, so good!!! Those look like light strings too!!!
Magnifique
Brilliant guitarist. If I can ever afford another guitar, I may get a Tele (because they're really cool and sound nice. Unfortunately, I don't think it will make me play any better, lol. Nor would chewing gum.)
Absolutely OUTSTANDING!!! Please post more Ed if you have it.
Beautiful .
Ah, a Tele with a humbucker in the neck position, the perfect jazz machine although I've heard a normal single coil Tele and struts doing the same thing.
Wow this is great stuff. Great playing and great tone - how does he get tone that out of a Tele? It looks like he's got a humbucker in the neck pickup - maybe that has something to do with it. Ed is so awesome.
He is amazing. That tele looks like it's been around the block a few times.
Great guitar player!!!
neighbour? you, sir, are one of the luckiest people alive. ed bickert is the king of all cool jaz guitar anywhere. after bickert who is there ? i watched ed bickert on tv at 11-12 years old and wanted to play jazz guitar not the rock or pop guitar of the era. icon jazz guitarist who is unimagiably under rated.
Bass on fire!!
.I love his playing and have for a long time.But,I think the original PU, the stock neck one,makes a sound I like more.The Tele PU has a pinch of bite to it that I think is lost in the Humb.What the hell.Just interesting to compare the two sounds, and thanks for the post...Wonderful
wow great stuff, Ed rules !
@dickey335 ... thanks for sharing your info ... he sure did get a great jazz tone from that tele.
1:40...Man, this bubblegum is fantastic.
anyone have a clue what the chords are doing at @1:35 ??? its so damn tasty
Hi, I think the bass player is playing a I-!V-bVII7-VI7 and Mr. Bickert is playing Cmaj7 with B on top and dropping the E to Eb making the voicing a F7#11 then moving to Bb9sus and Asus. He resolves into Amin9/D which is basically Dsus. Hope that helps. Very tasty!!
@@clintdadian852 I love that kind of talk
Amazing!
thank you very much
I think the bassist, Dave Young, played in a sketch for the Canadian TV show Kids in the Hall. Search for "Kids in the Hall Jazz Hater"
I'm lucky to call Ed my neighbour...incredible guy
Wow I'm sure you're not upset about the neighbors "playing music too loudly" haha
hahahaha100% true!
Sure hope he knows how well loved he is....media hype is not an accurate barometer. A genuine jazz guitar foundation stone.
You are VERY lucky. Can you ask him how to get his cds? It's nearly impossible unless you want to pay a high tariff.
Does Ed still play? Do you ever hear him playing from his house?
I'm wondering if the person who saw Joe Pass with Telecaster in his early year may be mistaking it for a Fender Jaguar he used to use also there was an similar Fender I think called the Jazzmaster guitar.
nah, Joe played a Tele lots early on. There's a record with him holding it on the cover.
Great playing.
so nice
Dave Young hs played with sooooo many people!
TIL I learned Ted Turner, when not running a broadcasting empire, was a great upright bassist
Rest In Peace, Ed....
Real quality!
C.G.T. Ukiah, CA
could watch this over and over ,ed's just amazing .
The phrase at 1.46 is one of my all time favourites and his face says it all .
Thanks so much for the post, is the rest of the gig available anywhere .
Been trying to get more of ed's recording but they are few an far between (at least on cd).
This is fabulous! Just right notes and lovely melody. Busy players ruin the song IMO!
formidable
Does anyone now understand why Jim Hall was scared when Ed walked in to wherever he was playing?
ed gets great tone , one of canada,s best
@jjemsnd7, I believe he also was a little surprised when he was called to do a recording or a live date and when he said " call Barry Galbraith " they replied with " we already did"...
Dang. This guy is too cool !
@jjemsnd7 lol... it really is jjem! Both are such giants. I can't think of a more lyrical player than Ed. His solos have a way of sticking in your head as entire melodies. Jim H. can do that for me too, but Ed has the edge on him for my ears. I'd love to see him resurface, if only for a one-off gig.
Ed, like his good freind Jim Hall, did some wonderful recordings with the great Paul Desmond. Both Jim and Ed are masters of the cool guitar sound that goes back to Charlie Christian. This video is definative Ed. So wasy, so fluid, so masterful, and so beautiful. I just wish he had the fame he deserves.